What Is Real? 6
The immersive multisensory panorama of your perceptual scene, right here and right now, is a reaching out from the brain to the world, a writing as much as a reading. The entirety of perceptual experience is a neuronal fantasy that remains yoked to the world through a continuous making and remaking of perceptual best guesses, of controlled hallucinations.
You could even say that we’re all hallucinating all the time. It’s just that when we agree about our hallucinations, that’s what we call reality.
—Anil Seth
In daily life, we rarely doubt the reality we exist within. Our brains construct our perception of reality based on information detected by our senses, by our intuitions, or by inductive reasoning: our ability to derive ...
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